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Saturday, April 20, 2013

“The simple joy of receiving and unwrapping a gift - something that us privileged people take for granted”: Souradipta Chandra

deepositive2I remember receiving a call from Dr. Souradipta Chandra, he introduced himself as Dr. Shaurya and he asked, if he could stop by at the workshop, to drop off some goodies. A couple of days later, we met, at the workshop and the next couple of hours were filled with conversations about life over coffee and wrapping of the tokens of Gratitude. I remember it most because of the fact that they, both Shaurya and Romik, felt like family, like we’d all known each other forever and that day!

It is amazing, when, people come together and share of themselves so generously, making time from busy schedules to come on over and pack surprises!!

Here’s what he wrote to us!

While browsing through the newspaper on a particularly grouchy day before Christmas, I came across a random article on DeePositive, and the unusual yet amazing way by which Deepanjali and gang were spreading Christmas cheer around the city.

Intrigued, I decided to make my own little contribution and dragged my friend Romik to the address mentioned in the article, armed with random boxes of stuff that I purchased - including chocolates, wafers, biscuits, cakes etc.

We reached Santa's workshop just before 9 in the evening, it was probably 3-4 days before Christmas. It was pretty darn cold, as per usual (Delhi Decembers are famous for that).

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So it was a welcome surprise to be enveloped in an unusual feeling of warmth as Romik and me gingerly strolled into the workshop. I realized why.

Cuz within seconds,we were welcomed by Deepanjali and her crew of elves, busy arranging, wrapping and packing random gifts with an infectious cackle here and a banter there, and it was possibly the spirit of the workshop that was the reason behind the warmth. It felt like home.

We were initially there to just donate our gifts and leave, but the charged atmosphere of that place was rather addictive, and difficult to resist.

We stayed back and wrapped and arranged gifts, meant for an alarmingly large fraction of the people of this city who might have never had the chance to unwrap a gift so far.

It was beyond amazing, and we were both humbled and elated after our time spent at the workshop.

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Hands down, it was the best money I had spent in 2012. Worth every penny.

Each blessing counts, and I'm sure the occasional smile lighting up each and every one of those faces that had received a gift last Christmas contributed to my 2013 starting off on a happy note - and touchwood, it's been an incredible year so far!

I'm glad I could be a part of the Christmas cheer Deepanjali and DeePositive created - it helped me give back a minute fraction of what I've been blessed with so far. In return I got back a lot more than I could have ever imagined - well, peace of mind for starters, and a fancy trip to New York a few weeks ago as well ;)

I'm definitely looking forward to be a part of this year's workshop - and I'm sure Deepanjali's team will make sure that more than a hundred thousand people in the  city experience the simple joy of receiving and unwrapping a gift - something that us privileged people take for granted. 

Thanks DeePositive :) Keep on bringing out those smiles - they're thoroughly infectious! : Souradipta Chandra

Santa Hugs of Gratitude to you for being a part of our lives and a part of the workshop: Team DeePositive

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Intern to Entrepreneur Programme: The Internship

What holds the programme apart  from all internships is the path of the internship. There is a purpose for everything you’ll be doing. The idea of creating a detailed internship programme is to enable growth of an idea.

Ideas are all beautiful and wonderful, till they are tailor cut according to the personality of the person representing it. Some of the best ideas have to wait a little longer to match, it’s like being engaged to an idea that you marry once all the formalities of getting to know each other are complete. It’s a phenomenal journey, once you begin!

In the first 6 months of the internship each intern will be working on DeePositive Foundation initiatives and DeePositive Intertainment events.

Once part of the programme an Intern will be referred to as a DeePositive Entrepreneur, so as to build a brand centric personal reminder that you're an intern with a purpose and you are a part of the programme to grow into an entrepreneur.

While doing so, the intern will be empowered to create powerful ideas that help build the initiatives into mass movements with focus on how to use limited resources to build an idea into a reality. In the process, practical lessons in creating strategies, media push and using communication tools like blogs, Facebook and twitter to build campaigns. Planning the marketing, media and event will be part of the exercise of learning through the first 6 months. In these 6 months, there will also be weekly reviews and group discussions building your own business idea into a definitive shape. This process is even more powerful, when you are surrounded with the other interns. Working out your own idea in co-dependence with the rest of the interns to create a connected network of empowered enthusiastic growth

From the 6th -9th month of your internship, you will be given a team, a team of fresh interns to work with and train, this helps in understanding that the role of an entrepreneur is a leadership role and co-depends on your interaction and communication with your team. This is vital, since it is always a team that brings success to any project. It is also essential to learn to delegate from personal power to grow. It will be in this period that you will handle your first experiment with your business idea at a smaller scale, the platform available for you is DeePositive G.I.V.E and the concept will be co-tagged with "A _____________ concept"

From the 9th - 11th Month is when you're idea comes closer to reality, working on your own company, logo, communication, market strategy and detailing the first 3 years of your life as an entrepreneur. This is when you're now at the level of personal expansion. However, the most important learning of the phase will be a three level responsibility training, prioritizing, scaling up and being a master of many growth modules without being slave to any. Balance is the main criteria in managing your own company. As the brand custodian and ambassador, you are the NAME, FACE and PERSONALITY of your brand.

The 12th Month, is when we begin all the processes of registering your company, opening accounts, getting you ready for the greatest adventure of your life. This is the hardest month on the heart, you're setting yourself up for your first "Founder" experience. You will be working full time on the launch of your brand in the market! What a proud moment for the programme and for you.

13th Month, at the Festival of Gratitude, we will have a ceremony of acknowledging your milestones as a DeePositive Entrepreneur and then introduce you and your brand to the press and public.

This is the moment you're waiting for and so are we!! YOU are the success of this programme. YOU are the reason why we are initiating a platform like "Intern to Entrepreneur Programme".

The most beautiful part is that YOU will not be alone in this moment, with you, are 9 brand new identities, beginning a whole new life experience with YOU.

You have your first 10 clients when you launch and yes, you will be invited to regularly mentor our next in line entrepreneurs.

Here's wishing have the confidence to apply for a real opportunity to be all you can be!! You can  download the form here

If you have any queries please feel free to write to us at info@deepositive.com

Monday, April 1, 2013

Intern To Entrepreneur: The Application Form

“The best way to keep learning is to Teach: Deepanjali”

Today is the day, we’ve been waiting for and we so hope you’ve been waiting too!! The day, we release the APPLICATIONS for the Intern to Entrepreneur programme.

The whole idea of setting out an application form is to ensure that YOU are free to express your “intent” to be a part of the programme. It is also an affirmative, that, you have enough confidence in your idea to take the first step towards making it a reality!

As we score another new dimension of Gratitude at DeePositive Foundation, we are delighted to invite you to apply for our latest adventure with Gratitude.

In our DeePositive journey we have come to celebrate the art of Giving with Gratitude through our projects. We now truly understand that we must G.I.V.E. more to Grow Together. In order to expand giving with Gratitude we now invite you to sample our latest initiative in creating a more Dedicated, Enthusiastic, Empowered, Positive life experience for yourself and for those who immediately come to your mind when you read this.

With the “Intern to Entrepreneur Programme”, a DeePositive Foundation initiative with the intent to empower entrepreneurs in thought to entrepreneurs for real.

We are DeePositive Foundation, completing a year and 4 months this March. We are crazy people wanting to create Gratitude filled experiences that have a profound and life changing and Gratitude filled “moment in time” when all the ideals you have ever heard of feel real. We began our journey in November 2011 and since have successfully created and grown into a foundation that triumphs in Gratitude and with Gratitude. We have successfully unleashed Gratitude with our initiatives Santa Workshop: Tokens of Gratitude (2011 & 2012), Santa Workshop: Tokens of Light (Diwali 2012). We launched GIVE last year, which to us is an experimental platform to pilot many of the Gratitude filled ideas GIVE (valentines, dancing, social gaming) and as we see it GIVE (Gratitude Inspired Vision Exchange) will continue to be an experimental platform for many ideas that come our way. We are also a part of empowering initiatives by other foundations, to us these opportunities are special since we get to associate with others and spread more Gratitude: Thank you ROPIO Foundatoin / NEN and Hatch for Startups for allowing us to walk into your brands and spread Gratitude.

We also, have another business of creating events for clients, weddings, employee events, conferences with DeePositive Intertainment.

The Intern to Entrepreneur Programme

It is our biggest GIVE back to the business eco-system as we create experiences that encourage people to take their first dream plunge as entrepreneurs. Our thrill is to watch people grow from Risk to Outcome. It is time now to allow ideas. To grow into innovations and individuals to grow into entrepreneurs. We are excited about meeting ideas and developing them into brands.

In a nutshell, A first for the Indian Entrepreneurs. An initiative that invites individuals to intern and the big prize of the internship period is launching the intern as an entrepreneur with their own entrepreneurial identity in a private limited company.

Is it too good to be true idea? Yes! It is. It is our DeePositive knowing that every individual is a life entrepreneur doing what they need to do to stray afloat and growing. So all we are doing is calling out to the Entrepreneur you already are to breathe a new vision which is Dedicated, Enthusiastic, Empowered, Positive self growth from where you are to where you have always known you would like to be.

What is the real challenge here?

The challenge is taking the first step to live your dream like I did in December 2009. I took a decision to be DeePositive and now 2.5 years later I am brand visionary with two beautiful brands DeePositive Intertainment and DeePositive Foundation. The experience of truly trusting myself to BE all I can be. I went from 10 years of learning to practicing what I learnt for 3 years. Now I am ready to pass it on and invite you to do all of what I did in 13 years within 12 months and that too with a promise.

The Promise : The Outcome

I promise you that I will allow you the advantages, all of the ones, I am blessed to provide you with through my experiences to assist you. Including my promise to invest 51,000 in your new venture as a token of Gratitude, for taking up the challenge of entrepreneurship.

The Outcome

Why should you even bother to apply?

Entrepreneurship isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, however if you look closely, every human being without exception has a dream to be financially free to live in abundance. We all want a life in which we have enough and more, where we are debt free and will be able to provide both time and money to our family. This is all possible when you are able to create a lifestyle that allows you the pleasure of multiple sources of income. These means of revenue trickle in and grow and if you are happy enough they will represent all the abundance you have ever dreamt of.

This is not possible really if all you are doing is getting a salary that doesn’t allow you the flexibility to dream Big or the freedom to work flexi hours and make your own rules. As an entrepreneur the beauty lies in owning your time and being charged enough to earn in your time too.

You must apply to really KNOW if you have it in you to take the Risk to living the rest of your life on your own terms.

You must apply if you feel you have it in you to Win with honesty and grow your idea into an institution.

You must apply if you would really like to take a 12 month sabbatical to test your idea and write a new future for yourself.

You must apply because you know that you are so meant to live a beautiful life on your own terms.

You must apply if you Think you can develop your brilliant idea into a phenomenal business surrounded by people who need your inputs just as much as you need theirs.

You must apply if you are convinced that it is more fun to intern and learn to be an entrepreneur that in it to intern to simple get a higher percentage salary.

If you are someone who strongly believes that we can revive the job market by creating more people centric business ideas that assist in creating a powerful and co-dependant and growing business ecosystem in which we thrive by Choice.

You must apply if this information has sparked an idea that demands to grow into a Fire Brand life changer.

You must apply if you have tot an idea that doesn’t allow you to sleep and it would be an adventure to grow the idea.

You must apply if you have ever demanded of phenomenal returns you Risk 5000 to apply and you receive 51000 at the end of the year. Could there be better returns?

You must apply if you have ever had a thought about owning your own brand and more than that if you have confidence in your ability to live, breath and be your own brand.

You must apply if you have ever wished that the world could co-depend seamlessly if everyone worked from personal power.

You can view and print the application form from here

If you don’t think you can make a difference on your own with a little support, well Don’t Apply. Get yourself a job and work hard to deserve a 20% raise every year. Maybe that is the future you’ve chosen for yourself. We are definitely looking for interns with a personal purpose!!

If you are one of them… this is where you begin… “fill in the application"